Corn Allergy

Always red the ingredients on a product label to be sure they don't contain a substance you are allergic or sensitive to. When complete ingredients are not available, use the information here as a general guide.

The following is a list of products that contain corn:

adhesives (envelopes, labels, stickers, tapes, stamps)
Any products that contain cornmeal, corn flour, corn oil, cornstarch, corn sugar, corn syrup or sorbitol.
aspirin
bacon
baking powder (most)
bath or body powder
beer, ale, gin, whisky
biscuits
Bisquick
breads (commercial)
brown sugar
cake, pancake and pie mixes
candied fruits (sweetened)
canned or bottled juice drinks
capsules
carob (CaraCoa)
cereals (presweetened)
coffee (instant)
Coffee Rich
confectioner's sugar
cookies
corn kernels
corn cereal
corn chips
cornmeal
corn oil and anything fried in it
cornstarch
corn sugar
corn syrup
cottage cheese (thickened)
cranberry juice (some)
custards
doughnuts
dried fruits (sweetened)
Fritos
frostings
frozen fruits (sweetened)
fruit desserts
graham crackers
gravies
ham (cured)
hominy
hot dogs
ice cream
infant formulas (Enfamil, Similac, Advance, Portagen Lofenalac, Isomil, Prosobee, Nursoy powder [not liquid], Soyalac [not I-Soyalac], Pedialyte, Hydrolyzed casein, Nutramigen, Progestimil)
jellies and gelatin mixes
luncheon meats
maize
milk in paper containers
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
ointments
oleomargarine
orange fruit (some frozen or sweetened)
paper cups, cartons, plates and any liquids contained in them
peanut butter (commercial sweetened)
pie fillings
plastic food wrappers (some)
popcorn
puddings
sandwich spreads
sauces that have been thickened but are transparent (e.g. Chinese style)
sausages
sherbet
sticky portion of envelopes and stamps
sorbitol
succotash
suppositories
tablets (most medicinal)
tea (instant)
toothpastes/powders
vitamins (some)
yogurt (thickened or sweetened)
Zest soap

A major portion of this list comes from Doris J. Rapp, MD, Is This Your Child? William Morrow, New York, 1991.